Tailor Time, Big Time

Well with all the reports of alot of tailor on our northern beaches and having a great session Saturday arvo with Colin and the chance to sneak out again, who could say no to a Sunday session.

After having a nanny nap to refreshen up in the arvo i had the car packed and ready to head off at 3:15pm and arrived at my destination at just after 4pm.

Got to the beach unloaded the gear and upon walking down to where i intended to fish seen only one other guy fishing, woohooo i thought, that was until i got close and seen all the weed floating around then thought bummer.

 

Anyway what can you do except persist and alot of the time it will pay off.

It was alot different to Sat arvo taking atleast 15mins for the first fish after endless lumps of weed on the lines and hunting along the gutter to find the part they were holding up in.

Once the first fish was in , it was full on after that for the next hour, throwing fish back that were smaller(under 40cm) and only keeping the 40 plus fish.

By this time another guy joined in on the action and that saw 3 of us getting into them.

Looking over on the beach i say kempy fishing there and getting huge lumps of weed so i told them to come over and get into them.

By that stage they slowed a bit but the younger boy still got into a couple.

best part was i was all done nice and early and left by dark(normally when you would expect to start getting them)

Came home with my bag of 8 fish, a couple over 50cm and most around the mid to high 40's

my bag of 8 fish

kempy hooked up

Sunset upon leaving the beach all bagged out

 


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Nice haul of fresh tailor

Mon, 2009-11-16 08:31

Nice haul of fresh tailor Matt.

Cheers Pete

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There are some beauties there Matt

Mon, 2009-11-16 08:47

I can see you trading in your boat for some more beach fishing gear (Lol).

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hahaha, NO WAY, ive got some

Mon, 2009-11-16 08:48

hahaha, NO WAY, ive got some nice beach setups and dont need anymore, its been a couple of fun days on the beach, hard work though, slept like a log last night

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Now come on Matt

Mon, 2009-11-16 09:25

After two days of getting soaked, battling weed and wind and catching a heap of fish - you have to be close to being lured to the dark side.

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No fish left for me

Mon, 2009-11-16 09:27

Fish on the bite at 4am Off the bite 5am

Start fishing with lure, Cos it was so windy And was not reaching the strike  zone

Got some good hits And then i hooked up on lure And drop alot as well

steve

 

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so did you end up catching

Mon, 2009-11-16 09:28

so did you end up catching any at all sherbs?

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Cant put photos up

Mon, 2009-11-16 09:31

Send to colin photo of lure and fish

steve

 

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I've never had much luck

Mon, 2009-11-16 10:29

I've never had much luck catching tailor from shore here in Perth.  I'm gonna give another go tomorrow evening.

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Better luck than I had!

Mon, 2009-11-16 11:41

You had better luck than me and the kids, went out Friday evening and got nothing but sea weed. Tried again Sunday arvo, more sea weed so we packed up and tried off the rocks at Hillaries. No fish, but no sea weed!!! Cry

We'll get some one day I'm sure. Surprised

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Didnt realise it at the time

Mon, 2009-11-16 12:35

Didnt realise it at the time but we were fishing 100m to the left of you yesterday arvo. Battling the weed. lol

We were able to work out when the tailor were on the bite because you guys on the rocks would bring a few in ... and before you knew it they would start smashing our mulies from the shore.

Was a perfect afternoon in the end (besides all the weed), good looking choppy water strong south-wester blowing. Between the four of us fishing the beach we managed to land 20 tailor of our own.

Had a ball testing my new stradic 5000 and shimano starlo stix beach outfit.

Gotta love the start of the summer tailor run.

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yeah i was watching all the

Mon, 2009-11-16 13:04

yeah i was watching all the guys on the beach struggling with the weed, that was the advantage where i was that you could see it and somewhat avoid the weedy patches as much as possible, though you guys done pretty good getting 20 off the beach

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Solid Tailor mate

Mon, 2009-11-16 12:58

Some great size Tailor there matey....a solid feed

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well done Matt some nice

Mon, 2009-11-16 14:50

well done Matt some nice fish but you have to work the rest of the week.

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yeah but can always head up

Mon, 2009-11-16 16:11

yeah but can always head up after work, its not that far? would you like to come russ? oh thats right you cant you have to work at night tooTongue out

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Dont tell them

Mon, 2009-11-16 16:16

Cos thay will have tailor on menu the next day

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Hmm tailor pizza

Mon, 2009-11-16 17:11

Or tailor burger

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tailor flavoured choc milk

Mon, 2009-11-16 17:12

tailor flavoured choc milk Tongue out

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Now that is something to cure a hangover

Mon, 2009-11-16 17:13

or kill you.

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I think the latter col!

Mon, 2009-11-16 17:20

I think the latter col!

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Lol Chris

Mon, 2009-11-16 17:23

I know the Faulkners food is much better than that thank god.

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Haha next time im in perth,

Mon, 2009-11-16 17:30

Haha next time im in perth, think i might have to make a diversion to the faulkners shop keep hearing good things about there food and i love my food haha especialy when someone else cooks it for me!

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great haul mate well done

Mon, 2009-11-16 17:35

great haul mate well done

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